Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:19 +1100, Toby Hutton wrote:

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jonathan Cast wrote:

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Not really. My company *advertises* for Haskell developers, and then when they come in to interview, informs them that the code base is actually written in Perl. Works, too --- we have several Haskellers working here. If all you care about is the quality of the developers, and not their productivity once you've got them, you don't actually

need

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to let them use Haskell after the interview is over...

I saw this trick recently for a job advertised locally to me, in Melbourne. I was initially pretty excited that someone in this city was actually advertising for Haskell programmers, until I realised they needed to be good at Javascript and Perl so they could work on their web apps. Argh, I didn't bother applying.

I think I saw the same advertisement; unfortunately it was on a joint Australasian website so I was in the wrong country anyway :)